Mark Mateski

As both an analyst and a manager at a number of defense and security organizations, Mark has directed wargames, conferences, studies, and assessments covering a range of topics. For well over a decade he has been a thought leader in the red teaming community and has pioneered the application of systems engineering principles, techniques, and tools to the practice of red teaming. Dr. Mateski has earned degrees in political science, national security studies, and systems engineering. He is currently an executive security and strategy consultant and teaches eight different graduate courses for the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at The George Washington University. Visit the Red Team Journal

“To understand the Russian approach to strategy and conflict, we must first understand something about the concept of reflexive control. Initially developed and championed by Vladimir Lefebvre, it’s a uniquely Russian view on stratagem and deception that repackages and reframes much of what we usually associate with Sun Tzu. If

In the first post in this series, I highlighted the broad utility of the sensible and timely tactical retreat. In this post, I explore the power of operating “underground.” Once again, I turn to H. John Poole’s Phantom Soldier, where he describes the challenge of fighting an adversary who operates

Read retired Marine H. John Poole’s Phantom Soldier. It doesn’t matter if you’re not in the infantry; read it anyway. It will open your eyes to the Eastern way of small-unit tactics. And while you’re reading it, contemplate the manifold parallels to cybersecurity. It will open your eyes to the

If might expect a red teamer’s top ten list of books to feature volumes on coding, hacking, and pentesting, you’re going to be surprised. In my view, the overarching principles of red teaming exist independent of any specific domain of application. Hence, my theme here is timeless patterns of cross-domain